The next morning, the morning was up.

Zhao Gou raised the matter of coal mining with the ministers, and asked: "Ladies and gentlemen, who wants to be in charge of this matter?" Explore, supervise the affairs of the coal mine, and share the worries of the imperial court! ”

As soon as the words fell, many ministers stood up.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to share the worries for Your Majesty and the court."

"Lord Wang, you can't stand this as a minister, so let's do such rough work!"

"This is a mistake, to explore the coal mine, you need to be familiar with the geography of mountains and rivers, let you go to find it, I'm afraid you have to find the Year of the Monkey."

"Lord Sun, what do you mean by this, we generals have been leading troops to fight all year round, wouldn't it be easy to find a coal mine."

Zhao Gou looked at this group of Wenchen generals and began to fight again, and immediately slapped the dragon chair and roared, saying: "Give me silence, the quarrel is endless, right!" shouted one by one to share the worries of the imperial court, why didn't they come up with such attention as digging coal mines earlier. ”？

"Your Majesty's Wrath"

The ministers also bowed their heads and packed their bags.

"This matter will be selected by the Ministry of Industry to arrange mining as soon as possible, and the people in the city must use coal next month, otherwise they will not come to see me at that time and retreat."

After the order, Zhao Gou also got up and left.

Zhang Heng came to the newspaper office to prepare for today's work.

When he entered the courtyard, he felt that the atmosphere was much cleaner, and the yard was noisy when he came before.

"Hello President"

Yao Feng walked over and greeted him with a smile on his face.

"You kid took the initiative to say hello to me today, it's weird."

Zhang Heng thought that he usually hid from himself, and he took the initiative to say hello today, which was also a little surprising.

Yao Feng smiled and said, "What's so weird, president, do you want tea?" I'll make you a pot. ”

Zhang Heng waved his hand and said, "By the way, what about Zhang Daqi and them?" Why didn't you see them today? ”

Yao Feng shook his head and said, "I don't know, I didn't see them when I came early in the morning."

"It's weird."

Zhang Heng also showed a trace of doubt in his eyes.

At this moment, Sun Jingxiang walked in from outside and said to him, "Tell you something." ”

Seeing her seriousness, Zhang Heng also became serious, and asked, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Sun Jingxiang nodded and said, "Your relatives in the newspaper have defrauded our branch employees of a lot of money, saying that they can give them a promotion and a raise. ”

"What?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng couldn't help but be stunned, and then turned his head to look at Yao Feng.

And Yao Feng was also surprised and said: "He also asked me for money, saying that he could make me a columnist." ”

After knowing the news, Zhang Heng also realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately asked everyone to come out and gather.

Soon a dozen of his reporters and four editors came to the courtyard, their faces full of doubt, not knowing what to say.

Zhang Heng glanced at them and asked, "Did those relatives of mine ask you for money in various names?" ”

But after the words fell, no one spoke.

Seeing this, Zhang Heng said directly: "No matter what excuse they use to ask you for money, they are lying to you, and now they have disappeared without a trace after getting the money." ”

And as soon as these words came out, the people below spoke endlessly.

"What? Deceptive? He's asking for six times! ”

"You're only six times, and my salary for most of the year is gone, who should I talk to?"

"He also said he was going to make me a columnist, liar."

"Let's go, let's go find him."

After Zhang Heng heard their discussion, he also stretched out his hand to calm them down, and said: "Everyone, don't make any noise, you all go and register, I will compensate you for any loss." ”

"Thank you, President"

After everyone thanked them, they immediately went to register.

At this time, Sun Jingxiang came over and said to Zhang Heng: "What are you going to do now?" You can't report it to the police! ”

Zhang Heng nodded and said, "This is natural, I can only consider myself unlucky, but I can't eat this loss in vain." ”

Sun Jingxiang looked at him, her eyes rolled quickly, and she said, "What idea did you think of again?" ”

Zhang Heng rubbed his chin and said, "This is a family matter, I'll tell you when it's done." ”

Seeing that he also sold Guanzi, Sun Jingxiang also smiled slightly and didn't say anything more.

At noon, Zhang Heng also walked out of the newspaper office, ready to rush home.

When he was on his way back, he suddenly saw a farmer pulling a cart of white plants, and it felt very familiar for a while.

After being stunned for a moment, Zhang Heng finally remembered what this plant was, and immediately couldn't help but be happy, because this plant was cotton, and this cotton was not introduced to the Song Dynasty at all in the previous life, but thinking that the peppers were already there, it was not strange to have more cotton.

Then he immediately went over and said to the farmer, "Big brother, where did you get this cotton?" ”

"It's called cotton! We kept calling him White Grass, and there were many of them on the barren hills near our village, and we cut them all to make fires. ”

The farmer replied.

"What a terrible thing!"

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Heng also felt a pain in his heart, this cotton is a good thing! What a waste.

He immediately ascertained where the village was, and then immediately found a horse and rode there.

After an hour of galloping, Zhang Heng finally came to the small village, and seeing that many people were harvesting cotton on the mountain, he also hurriedly rushed over and shouted: "Stop." ”

After the villagers heard this shout, they couldn't help but look over one by one and stared at him directly.

Zhang Heng took a deep breath and said, "Everyone, I am now buying this cotton at a price of ten wen a catty, if I can remove the seeds inside, the price will be one hundred wen a catty." ”

"What? A million pounds, really fake. ”

Upon hearing this, the villagers were also very excited and couldn't believe what they had heard.

"Yes, one hundred wen a catty, and there is no limit, I will collect as much as I want, and you don't have to cut the cotton, just pick the cotton on it."

Zhang Heng advised, these are wild cotton, and they will be planted and cultivated later.

Immediately, the villagers began to call friends to pick cotton, after all, a hundred wen a pound is a sky-high price, and it is so easy to earn.

Soon Zhang Heng saw that hundreds of people in the entire village had come to the mountain to pick cotton, and even gave up the work in the field, and the mountain was also in full swing.

Seeing this, he is also very happy, now that the weather is getting colder and colder, it is a very happy thing to be able to put on cotton clothes and cover with quilts.